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...runner's high? Davis pays his U.S. factory workers an average wage of $12 an hour, plus benefits, compared with 40˘ an hour for a worker in mainland China, where 76% of U.S. athletic footwear originates. The tax breaks Congress just passed for U.S. companies to keep manufacturing jobs at home amount to chump change given that gap. Overall, the U.S. footwear industry has shed nearly 200,000 jobs since the early 1970s, leaving fewer than 21,000. More to the point: What teenager clamoring for Air Jordans really cares where the shoe is stitched...
...filling special orders for hard-to-find sizes and widths and give the company more flexibility to help out independent retailers--a lucrative niche. The firm has a reputation "as the easiest company to do business with," according to the trade publication Sporting Goods Investor. As for the wage gap, Davis says it's overblown. All his U.S. plants are highly automated, with bar-coded parts and computerized stitching and embroidery machines, resulting in about 25 minutes of manual labor to produce a pair of shoes versus more than four hours in a less automated Asian plant...
...Daily wage for opium laborers in Afghanistan, twice the average daily pay for unskilled labor in that country...
According to Bolden-Kramer, a ’98-00 graduate named Ian Simmons, who during his years at Harvard was part of the Living Wage Campaign, the Undergraduate Council and the Philips Brooks House, was instrumental in sparking initial talks with HSF. According to Simmons, Aaron Tanaka ’04—a cofounder of HSF—approached FCL with a proposal last summer, and discussions about 45 Mt. Auburn have been going on since...
Wolf, who holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government and served as an Institute of Politics fellow in 1994, said she had won support on campus for her work on the living wage campaign and her advocacy on behalf of same-sex marriage...